Last night, I went to get my hair cut, and I have bangs now. Do you know how long it’s been since I’ve had bangs?? So weird. Anyway, I’m really happy with it, and it looks better when I pin my hair up, which is highly convenient for the 3-Day. Since I was a little early for my appointment, I started on another item from my 101 things<\/a> list, and drove around taking photos of three of my previous homes. (This one<\/a> makes me want to have a contest to see who had the worst college apartment, because I think I might win with the rat, roaches, and not one but two <\/em>fires.)<\/p>\n I’d watched the Neelys on the Food Network at the gym the other day and then told Matt about it, so he was inspired to make this for dinner:<\/p>\n (Sorry about the crappy photo; our kitchen is lit slightly better than a cave.) We had oven-‘fried’ chicken with panko breading, the same in seitan form for me, homemade mac and cheese that will last us a year as leftovers, and collard greens from the garden. Yum.<\/p>\n I’ve now put 7 hours into cooking down a giant batch of tomatoes for tomato paste. If it’s not done by this weekend, I’m declaring it really thick tomato soup instead. Regardless, I can’t believe how good something that simple tastes: it’s just mashed-up fresh tomatoes, a little brown sugar, and salt.<\/p>\n I’ll post the recipe when it’s finished!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my teeth has been bothering me to the point of making my ear ache, so it was time to go visit the dentist. I figured it was a cavity, but it turns out it was actually a cracked filling. So instead of a simple procedure, I got a crown instead. SURPRISE! It’s one …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-AS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"soul](\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4100\/4885050707_d789ba3cba.jpg\")
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